United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. American Re-Insurance Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered on or about June 3, 2015, which denied defendants American Re-Insurance Company, Ace Property & Casualty Insurance Company and Century Indemnity Company’s motion for a ruling that the reasonableness of plaintiff United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company’s (USF&G) allocation of all settlement dollars to asbestos-insurance claims is properly the subject of evidence at trial, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

While plaintiffs are correct that evidentiary rulings made before trial are ordinarily reviewable only on appeal from the…